Management Accountants Close Profession’s Gender Pay Gap Globally

Women working in management accounting have caught up with their male colleagues in pay and benefits globally, but the gender pay gap persists in the U.S., and widens for women later in their careers.

The most competitive scenario is for women in their 20s who out-earned their young male colleagues by 25 percent worldwide, according to the Institute of Management Accountants 2019 salary survey.

Women and men took home $45,000, based on median compensation globally. That’s a fraction of what the industry pays in the U.S. and represents a sharp decline in compensation from last year due to a ...